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M-militarism
A-alliance system
I-imperialism
N-nationalism

glorification of the military, build up and be the best
militarily capable of defeat
       adds to tension and competition
       everyone starts to focus on war

Bismarks Goal and Rule: unifed germany and created alliance of the five great powers before WWI (Ger, AH, Fr, Br, Rus) to balance power and keep peace

Two rival blocks developed after bismark
Triple Alliance (Ger, AH, Italy) VS. Triple Entente (Br, Fr, Rus)

Now there cant be a small war becasue everyone is involved

Compition for colonies led to a whole lot of rivalry and conflict

Intense pride in country, you should rule your own people
germany: big military leader wanted to prove theyre the best
Serbia: unite all serbs felt incomplete
OE and AH big empires that were threatened by nationalism

AFF the heir to the throne of AH, went to bosnia which is mostly serb, princip (mega nationalist of serbs) assasinated him to show fury.
Marks point of no return
AH blamed Serbia and said if they didnt stop with anti AH then they would go to war.

Germanys support of AH.
be as agressive as you want and we will support you
wanted to flex military strength
impacted decision to enter war
thought they would win with ger on their side

AH declares war on Serbia
Russia declares war on AH so on and so forth
what starts as conflict in balkans turned into WWI

weapons were ahead of the tactics
stalemate was a time when no one was gaining just thousands of casualties

the fighting caused mass destruction to Russian land and infastructure

advanced weapons that were destructive
machine guns, long range artillery, poinsin gas, tanks, submarines

Germans used submarines and employed unrestricted warfare attacked nutural US and drew tehm into the war

Total War: everyone involved in the war, every person, resource are channeled into your countries warfare
govplaned economy (prices, rations)
civilianseveryone took part
women--left the home went to the factory to do the jobs that men had done

Russian Revolution
US declares war on Germany

Russia was suffereing because of the war, ppl grew tired of fighting and became irritable and tens.
Riots broke out including the Bolshievik Revolution (socialist group that sieses control)
Russia has huge conflict, unstable and pulls out of the war.
Germany now only fighting one front war

US declared war on Germany  because of unrestricted sub warfare
breaks isolation
sent 2 million soilders to back up entant
they were positive and ready to win
tips balance in favor of entent

14 Points: to prevent an end to all wars
he never wanted to get involved was always a moralistic crusader

Targerted for cultural differences : religion (chris), occupation (elite)
and for rise of of armienian nationalism scared turks
the world ignored it
today is still not recognized by turkey as a genocide
hitler "who today remembers the armienians"
denial enables future genocides